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      <news:title>Bamako is No Longer Safe: JNIM Shifts Scale</news:title>
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      <news:title>The Situation in the Sahel</news:title>
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      <news:title>‘You have to dance like everybody else!’ Burkina Faso in full colour – in pictures</news:title>
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      <news:title>NAF Airstrike Kills ISWAP Leaders in Lake Chad</news:title>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-10-19T19:43:51.000Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, resume talks with ECOWAS — 18 months after withdrawal</news:title>
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      <news:title>Queues for fuel form in Niamey amid shortage in Niger — The Rio Times</news:title>
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      <news:title>Only 30% of clinics in Burkina Faso offer full adolescent reproductive health care, study finds</news:title>
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      <news:title>Malian Army and Rebels Committing Abuses Against Civilians, Rights Group Says</news:title>
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      <news:title>Burkina Faso : four years of Traoré, sovereignty celebrated, freedoms in retreat</news:title>
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      <news:title>Niger: Fuel shortages leave drivers stranded in Niamey</news:title>
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      <news:title>Bailarines sordos en Burkina Faso emplean una técnica para sentir e interpretar el ritmo</news:title>
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      <news:title>Military Attacks On Civilians, Insurgent Abuses</news:title>
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      <news:title>France’s return to the Sahel: restoring influence via new security tools?</news:title>
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      <news:title>Nearly 21 months after leaving ECOWAS, breakaway Sahel states agree to negotiate new deal with West African bloc</news:title>
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      <news:title>Nijar,Mali,Burkina Faso sun soma zaman tattaunawa da ECOWAS a Dakar</news:title>
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      <news:title>Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger meeting: Wetin Alliance of Sahel States proposed cooperation wit Ecowas mean for West Africa</news:title>
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